Louis A. Gottschalk

Louis A. Gottschalk
Born	August 26, 1916 Missouri, US
Died	November 27, 2008 (aged 92) California, US
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Washington University in St. Louis US Public Health Service Michael Reese Hospital National Institute of Mental Health Walter Reed Army Institute of Research University of Cincinnati University of California, Irvine
Alma mater	Soldan High School, St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis
Known for	Gottschalk-Gleser Scales
Influences	Carl Cori
Notable awards	UCI Medal

Louis A. Gottschalk (August 26, 1916 – November 27, 2008) was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist.

Gottschalk earned his M.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1943 and his Ph.D. from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1977.

He was the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at University of California Irvine College of Medicine.

He gained national prominence by announcing in 1987 that Ronald Reagan had been suffering from diminished mental ability as early as 1980. He came to this conclusion by using the Gottschalk-Gleser scales, an internationally used diagnostic tool he helped develop for charting impairments in brain function, to measure speech patterns in Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential debates.^[1]

Gottschalk coinvented software that uncovered a link between childhood attention deficit disorder and adult addiction to alcohol and drugs. In 2004, at age 87, he published his last book, World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out of Mind.

In 2006, his son filed a suit alleging that Gottschalk had lost millions of dollars in a 419 scam.^[2]

Gottschalk died at his home on November 27, 2008.

Bibliography

Selected books

• Louis A. Gottschalk and Goldine C. Gleser (1969), Measurement of Psychological States Through the Content Analysis of Verbal Behaviour, Univ. of California Press, ISBN 0-520-01482-0
• Gottschalk, Louis A. (1979), The Content analysis of verbal behavior: further studies, SP Medical Scientific Books, ISBN 0-89335-047-8
• Gottschalk, Louis A. (1984), How to understand and analyze your own dreams, Corona Del Mar, Calif.: Art Reproductions Press, ISBN 0-939373-00-9
• Gottschalk, Louis A. (1985), The tree of knowledge, Corona del Mar, Calif.: Eden Press, ISBN 0-533-01652-5
• Gottschalk, Louis A. (1989), How to do self-analysis and other self-psychotherapies, Northvale, N.J.: J. Aronson, ISBN 0-87668-847-4
• Gottschalk, Louis A. (1995), Content analysis of verbal behavior: new findings and clinical applications, Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ISBN 0-8058-1558-9
• Gottschalk, Louis A. (2004), World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN 1-59033-834-0

Selected scientific articles

• Gottschalk, L.A. (1947), "Systematic psychotherapy of the psychoses" (PDF), Psychiatric Quarterly 21 (4): 554–574, doi:10.1007/BF01654318, PMID 18904522
• Gottschalk, L.A. (1948), "Bibliotherapy As an Adjuvant in Psychotherapy", American Journal of Psychiatry 104 (10): 632–637, doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.104.10.632, PMID 18913430
• Gottschalk, L.A. (1956), "The Relationship of Psychologic State and Epileptic Activity—Psychoanalytic Observations on an …", Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 11: 352–380
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Whitman, R.M. (1962), "Some Typical Complications Mobilized by the Psycho-Analytic Procedure", International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 43: 142–150
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Gleser, G.C.; Wylie, H.W.; Kaplan, S.M. (1965), "Effects of imipramine on anxiety and hostility levels" (PDF), Psychopharmacology 7 (4): 303–310, doi:10.1007/BF00403696, PMID 5319124
• Gottschalk, Louis A.; Stone, Walter N.; Gleser, Goldine C.; Iacono, James M. (1966), "Anxiety Levels in Dreams: Relation to Changes in Plasma Free Fatty Acids", Science 153 (3736): 654–657, doi:10.1126/science.153.3736.654, PMID 5939937
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Pattison, E.M. (1969), "Psychiatric Perspectives on T-Groups and the Laboratory Movement: an Overview", American Journal of Psychiatry 126 (6): 823–839, doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.126.6.823, PMID 4900820
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Fox, R.A.; Bates, D.E. (1973), "A Study of Prediction and Outcome in a Mental Health Crisis Clinic", American Journal of Psychiatry 130 (10): 1107–1111, doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.130.10.1107, PMID 4728903
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Stone, W.N.; Gleser, G.C. (1974), "Peripheral Versus Central Mechanisms Accounting for Antianxiety Effects of Propranolol", Psychosomatic Medicine 36 (1): 47–56, PMID 4359336
• Gottschalk, L.A. (1976), "Children's speech as a source of data toward the measurement of psychological states" (PDF), Journal of Youth and Adolescence 5 (1): 11–36, doi:10.1007/BF01537082
• Gottschalk, L.A.; McGuire, F.L.; Heiser, J.F.; Dinovo, E.C.; Birch, H. (1979), "A Review of Psychoactive Drug-Involved Deaths in Nine Major United States Cities" (PDF), Substance Use & Misuse 14 (6): 735–758, doi:10.3109/10826087909041905
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Hoigaard-martin, J.C.; Eckardt, M.J.; Gilbert, R.L.; Wolf, R.J. (1982), "Cognitive Impairment and Other Psychological Scores Derived from the Content Analysis of Speech in …" (PDF), The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 9 (4): 447–460, doi:10.3109/00952998209002646, PMID 7188005
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Fronczek, J.; Abel, L. (1993), "Emotions, Defenses, Coping Mechanisms, and Symptoms", Psychoanalytic Psychology 10 (2): 237–260, doi:10.1037/h0079459
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Bechtel, R. (1995), "Computerized measurement of the content analysis of natural language for use in biomedical and …", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 47 (2): 123–130, doi:10.1016/0169-2607(95)01645-A, PMID 7587159
• Gottschalk, L.A.; Defrancisco, D.O.N.; Bechtel, R.J. (2002), "Computerized Content Analysis of Some Adolescent Writings of Napoleon Bonaparte: A Test of the …", The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 190 (8): 542, doi:10.1097/00005053-200208000-00007, PMID 12193839

References

1. John Needham (December 24, 1987). "UCI Study Calls Reagan Intellectually Impaired". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
2. William Lobdell (March 2, 2006). "UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails, Suit Says". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-15.

External links

• Louis A. Gottschalk collected papers via Vanderbilt University